Liolaemus porosus ABDALA, PAZ & SEMHAN, 2013

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Higher Taxa	Liolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Liolaemus porosus ABDALA, PAZ & SEMHAN 2013
Distribution	Argentina (Salta), Chile (Atacama Region), above 3600 m elevation Type locality: “20km al Este del puesto de Gendarmería, Argentina, ubicado en el límite internacional con Chile por el paso Socompa, departamento de Los Andes, provincia de Salta, Argentina. Coordenadas: 24°34’40.2’’ S y 68°11’58.4’’ W, 3707 msnm.”
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: FML 2497, adult male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Within the Liolaemus montanus series, L. porosus is the only species which shows postcloacal pores in males (1-8 x = 3.0 in five of the six males). It can be distinguished from L. annectens; L. chlorostictus; L. dorbignyi; L. duellmani; L. fabiani; L. filiorum; L. forsteri; L. foxi; L. huayra; L. inti; L. jamesi; L. melanogaster; L. nigriceps; L. orientalis; L. patriciaturrae, L. pachecoi; L. pleopholis; L. polystictus; L. puritamensis; L. robustus, L. scrocchii; L. thomasi; L. vallecurensis; L. vulcanus, and L. williamsi, because all these species are larger (with a maximum snout- vent length in adults, between 77 and 105mm vs. 72.9mm in L. porosus). It differs from L. audituvelatus; L. erguetae; L. erroneus; L. ethe- ridgei; L. famatinae; L. fittkaui; L. insolitus; L. lopezi; L. manueli; L. ortizi; L. pantherinus; L. poconchilensis; L. reichei; L. rosenmanni; L. ruibali; L. schmidti; L. stolzmanni and L. torresi, because are smaller than L. porosus, (48-66mm maxSVL vs 72.9mm in L. porosus). Additional details (4574 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: not listed by Ruiz de Gamboa 2016 for Chile.
Etymology	named after Latin (Porosus = porous) referring to the large number of pre-cloacal and post-cloacal pores.
References	Abdala, Cristian Simón; Marcos Maximiliano Paz & Romina Valeria Semhan 2013. Nuevo Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) con novedoso carácter morfológico, de la frontera entre Argentina y Chile. Rev. Biol. Trop. 61 (4): 1563-1584 - get paper here Demangel, Diego 2016. Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, 619 pp - get paper here Demangel, Diego; Cristian Sepúlveda, Manuel Jara, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso and Herman Núñez 2015. Liolaemus omorfi, A NEW LIZARD SPECIES FROM THE ANDES OF NORTHERN CHILE (SAURIA, LIOLAEMIDAE). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile, 64: 139-155 - get paper here Kwet, Axel 2014. Liste der im Jahr 2013 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (3): 56-67 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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